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* [[Next to Normal]] is pretty much ''Break The Cutie: The Musical''. Diana has been treated for severe Bipolar disorder for twenty years, haunted by manic-depressive episodes, side-effects of potentially lethal medications, and hallucinations of {{spoiler|her late son}}. After undergoing a heavy dose of ECT (which she seems to have enjoyed a bit ''too'' much), she loses most memories of her family. After regaining them, the trauma of {{spoiler|losing her son}} finally rushes back she decides that {{spoiler|the slow and dangerous treatment isn't worth tearing her family apart, so she decides to leave them}}.
* In ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' when {{spoiler|Stanley raped Blanche}} the cutie ''really'' became [[Rape Leads to Insanity|broken]].
* ''[[Spring Awakening]]'' is also a good candidate for ''Break The Cutie: The Musical'' because ''half the characters'' get broken. Ilse and Martha got physically/sexually abused by their fathers, and they both had crushes on Moritz. Speaking of Ilse, she got kicked out for telling someone about her father and ran off to an artist's colony, only to head back home when one of them ''holds a gun to her chest.'' After heading back and [[Contrived Coincidence|conveniently meeting Moritz,]] who ''also'' got kicked out for failing in school, she offers to take him home--but he refuses. After realizing he's made a huge mistake, {{spoiler|he [[Ate His Gun|eats his gun]].}} Meanwhile, Wendla gets pregnant by Melchior and later {{spoiler|gets [[Kill the Cutie|a botched abortion]]}}, which Melchior is unaware of because he got framed by [[Sadist Teacher|the teachers]] and sent to a reformatory for {{spoiler|his best friend's suicide.}} Then there's Hanschen and Ernst, who... [[What Happened to The Mouse?|kind of vanish after the second act.]]
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